REMAP

Engaging Artists

REMAP

REMAP was a collaborative project facilitated by artists Anna Adler, Julia Rooney, and Corinne Cappelletti, involving meditation, recipe sharing, and map-making with unhoused and formerly unhoused community groups. Through visual art, movement, and cooking, REMAP traced the often invisible journeys and stories of transient populations in New York City. REMAP’s workshops enabled participants to explore ideas of navigation, place and dislocation, while creating a record of their experiences that functioned as a resource for the unhoused and the wider public.
Artists
Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti, & Julia Rooney
When

June – November 2015

Where

Various locations throughout New York City.

Events

Open Session + Workshop
December 6th, 1pm-5pm
Jefferson Market Library
Willa Cather Community Room
425 Avenue of the Americas

 

Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti, and Julia Rooney, Remap, Jefferson Market Library. 2015 - 2016.
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Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti, and Julia Rooney, Remap, Jefferson Market Library. 2015 - 2016.

REMAP was a collaborative project involving meditation, recipe sharing, and map-making with current and formerly unhoused community groups. Facilitated by artists Anna Adler, Julia Rooney, and Corinne Cappelletti, alumni of the 2014 Engaging Artist Residency and funded by a seed grant from More Art, REMAP consisted of workshops held July through December 2015.

REMAP aimed to trace the often invisible journeys and stories of transient populations in New York City through visual art, movement, and cooking. The goal was to generate a creative dialogue and exchange between the housed and the unhoused through the process of mapping. Throughout each session participants explored ideas of navigation, place and dislocation. REMAP embraced the idea of mapping one’s location in and through a place, city, and/or landscape as an act of empowerment and agency building. The act of claiming a location in the city through map-making was used a tool to gain a deeper sense of belonging and feeling of home.

The artists received support to produce this project as a 2015 Engaging Artists Residency Grantee.

 

Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti, & Julia Rooney

Anna Adler is an artist and educator working in sculpture, installation, and performance with a focus on staged narrative, storytelling and social practice. Her work involves inserting the surreal into the everyday, through public walks, interventions, and general explorations of the fluidity of identity and place.

Corinne Cappelletti is a dancer, community-builder, and Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist. She devises performance-based models for developing a sense of place, and began her art & social justice work as an ArtsBridge Scholar, co-facilitating a stress-management program with under-served teenagers through portraiture and somatic awareness tools.

Julia Rooney is a visual artist and an arts educator. Though rooted in painting, her studio practice often bridges other disciplines, including performance, culinary arts, writing, and community-based work. In making her work, she is primarily concerned with “rooting” the body — her own and her viewers — in what is constantly moving.

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Launch

On Sunday, December 6 from 1 to 5pm More Art presented REMAP, a work of participatory art by Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti, and Julia Rooney that engaged transient populations to create a map of citywide resources from their collective knowledge base.

This kickoff event featured a panel discussion with experts on homelessness as well as a map making workshop, a manna bread making class, a guided meditation, and other activities that the artists employ to facilitate the making of REMAP. 

This event also marked the launch of REMAP’s Beta project, a map and resource guide compiled for and by members of the transient population and designed by Adler, Cappelletti, and Rooney. 

This event was free and open to the public. 

 

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